Planning out the 2025 outdoor grow

[TomH]

Your plants are absolutely gorgeous @TomH. How on Earth do you keep up with all of them… and do it so well? Color me impressed!

The good Lord blessed me here with really good growing conditions and a GF that indulges my extravagances. She is definitely a huge help in keeping all this growing well.

 

[TomH]

All outdoor plants (4), have been planted in their long term digs.

The two big plants are super blue dream. Clones that were cut more than a year ago. Kept them at a manageable size by regular trimming, lowering the light intensity and feeding less.

It’s rough because the plants just want to take off. As it is, both have single pairs of stigma’s everywhere. They are feeling their oats.

Both super blue dream plants got a significant haircut this morning to remove older leaves, small hidden branches and anything growing towards the center.

The small plant in a container is KC Wolfenstein. A hybrid that is new to me and I’m curious to see what it does. It’s mainlined for best sunlight exposure.
Direct sunlight for the three planters is about 6 to 7, with the remaining being exposed to bright sky and reflecting surfaces for a total of about 14.5 hours light sky.

The three planters are remote from the rest of the garden and one indica. Blackberry moonshine is growing on the hill with the garden.
It’s an indica, which I’m badly missing in my closet now. Looking forward to some sweet mellow medicine.

 

[Tremojem]

I'll be watching for certain.

 

[TomH]

All the cactus flowers I can find, so far.
Then came the last days of May, with more buds in the offing.

 

[Zen_seeker]

Anything new in bloom?

 

[TomH]

Anything new in bloom?

Yo, Zen, how is life treating you?
It’s been a really rough few weeks here.

Anyway, here’s a few blooms.

 

[Zen_seeker]

Yo, Zen, how is life treating you?

Like a punching bag.
I find some peace looking at your garden pics. I was never good with cacti. You’ve got the touch.

It’s been a really rough few weeks here.

I hope it’s nothing you can’t handle.

Anyway, here’s a few blooms.

Thank you. They look great, as always.

 

[BlueCollarBob]

Yo, Zen, how is life treating you?
It’s been a really rough few weeks here.

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I searched to see if I had missed any posts from you, a couple of days back. Hope things are better or getting there fast.

Your flowers are always gorgeous

 

[TomH]

The last week and a half have been chasing down a mystery illness that my GF has been dealing with.

Local ER services are okay, but really leave a lot to be desired.
Turns out she’s got a form of enteritis in the middle of the small intestine, probably related to celiac illness.
For days she was having horrible back and abdominal cramps, it would come on in waves (she said it felt like labor pains coming on).

The ER medicated her for discomfort and even accidentally identified it in a blood test result, but failed to actually identify nor treat it.

Her GP finally saw her and looked at the blood test results and images, figured it out and got an antibiotic going. But the pain will persist for up to two more weeks.

During all this I bug sprayed my plants with an obviously too strong mixture (Dane brammage), plants lost about 3 - 4 weeks of veg time, just now getting back to normal looking. Fortunately, still in veg, many weeks left and very forgiving plants. They literally had to regrow significant amounts of leaves. It was like a chemical defoliant.
I don‘t have any new pics, I get back into town tomorrow and will try to get some posted.

Never mix chemicals when you’re preoccupied.

 

[BlueCollarBob]

Wow! You guys have had a nasty stretch. Sorry it took so long, but good on her doc for diagnosing the issue. It sucks that they can't do anything for the pain while she's waiting on the antibiotics to do their thing. The plants don't mean much when you have a loved one who is hurting, but it was nice to read that you got those straightened out, too.